Why Did Isaiah & Sydney Break Up From Love Island Games? Here’s What He Said About the Cheating Rumors
Jason Pham
Love Island Games Season 2 viewers were in for a surprise on the September 22 episode when none other than Isaiah’s Love Island USA ex, Sydney, arrived as a bombshell and confirmed that there was “unfinished business” between the two. But why did Isaiah and Sydney break up? Well, we’ll let him tell the story.
Isaiah Campbell, a 24-year-old from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Sydney Paight, a 25-year-old from Houston, Texas, met on Love Island USA Season 4 in 2022, where they were the runners-up. Both original islanders, they coupled up on Day 1 before splitting on Day 5 when Isaiah coupled up with Mady McLanahan and Sydney coupled up with Andy Voyen.
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They got back together on Day 9 and stayed coupled up until the finale, where they came in second place to Timmy Pandolfi and Zeta Morrison. After the finale, they stayed together for more than a year until December 2023 when Sydney announced on Instagram that she was single. But why did Isaiah and Sydney break up from Love Island USA?
Why did Isaiah and Sydney break up from Love Island Games?
In an interview on the “Forever Unemployed” podcast in December 2023, Isaiah revealed that Sydney broke up with him after he cheated on her with another woman. During the interview, Isaiah explained that he was celebrating his friend’s birthday at the Jersey Shore when he met some fans at a bar who started giving him drinks. He recalled blacking out, with the only thing he remembered from the night was when he got into an Uber.
The next morning, Isaiah received a several missed calls from Sydney before she sent him a video, in which he appeared to kiss another woman. “We’re done, you’re a liar,” Sydney told him, according to Isaiah. “Not really much else was to it. I was just trying to figure out what was going on in the first place,” Isaiah said of his and Sydney’s breakup. “All I’m trying to do is console her feelings and try to understand where she’s coming from, and I was crying. I was crying all day.”
Though Isaiah tried to win Sydney back, she only agreed to talk to him if it was face-to-face, which he couldn’t afford the flight for. At the time, Sydney lived in Los Angeles, while Isaiah resided in Florida. “If you guys are going to pick sides, please just pick hers,” he said on the podcast. “If she did to me what I did to her, I can’t say I’d do anything different.”
In another interview on the “Unattainable” podcast in 2024, Sydney confirmed that she “cut off” Isaiah after the cheating video but holds “no hate” toward him. “There was real love there,” she said. “I honestly consider that the first relationship I ever had where I experienced love, especially on an adult level. I didn’t know what else to do. I cut it off. I did what I thought was right in the moment. I hope he’s doing well. There’s no hate there.”
Three years after Season 4 of Love Island USA, both Isaiah and Sydney returned to the villa for Love Island Games Season 2. Isaiah was an original islander on Love Island Games Season 2, where he coupled up with Nicola Gauci Borda-Warr from Love Island Malta Season 1 on Day 1. Sydney arrived as a bombshell on Day 6. “I feel like I could cut the tension with… I don’t know how the saying goes,” Sydney said in a confessional interview.
When asked by the islanders if Sydney came to get Isaiah back, she responded, “I don’t know. I think chats need to be had.”
